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>>9036402
what's the black knight halbard of anything, tbqh

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>>9036402
>literture

>>9036402
Plato? It's excessively strong, you can get it at the beginning (start with the Greeks) and it's still relevant near the end?

>>9036357
>do people actually find this shit enjoyable?
Yes, they do.

Nobody actually likes the meme trilogy, but you have to read it, it's a rite of passage here.

>>9036357

>Unmusical mind not capable of aesthetic appreciation tries Joyce
>predictably fails

more like youre too stupid to get it so you start a thread for people to join you in your failure

>>9036146
Have you seen last Marvel movie? It's very kool, isn't it?

>>9036157
which? it seems theres a new one everyday

Nothing wrong with that whatsoever.

>"Is there anything wrong with cultural elitism?" he asked the cultural elitists.
>"Nothing at all" they answered.

>>9036121
What's wrong is that you believe an educated taste makes you like only what's best.

>>9036020
Literally who?

>>9036061
i think OP's under the impression we keep a list of all infinite jest readers j/k we do keep a list but it's of purchasers lol

>>9036020

This is a literature board. Fuck off.

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>>9035879
Redpill me on Carl Jung

>>9035881
Proposed the existence of a collective unconscious, which is essentially a sort of psychological architecture which houses primordial, ancestral meta-narratives (typically represented symbolically or pictorially) that help man structure reality and survive. These are basically something like cross-cultural archetypes that continuously reappear because they are so fundamental to our psyches. Art, drama, myth, religion, &c are very important representations of this and serve vital roles in instructing people of these archetypal ideas that help personal growth, communal wellbeing, moral instruction, and so on. He also had some very insightful ideas about personality being subject to more set types (though not perfectly so) than occurring on a spectrum. There are a lot of complex structures he described within a psyche, but this should be enough for a brief redpill.

Cuz he wuz INFJ

He rapes his sister, Phoebe

It's still relevant now.
I read it this year and can relate with Holden despite knowing that he's a character we are supposed to empathize with.

Just read it, it's not even long.

It's a teenagers book.

Like 5 my man

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>>9035501
Spicy sino-meme. Can I save it?

As for me the number is around 200-250, because I'm a student with nothing much to do but study, work and read.

>>9035501
0-7, depending on my mood.

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>tfw to intelligent to be depressed

>>9035482
>60 - 100 IQ
not depressed

>100 - 110 IQ
housewife depressed

>110 - 140 IQ
genuine depression

>140 - 170
not depressed

>>9035473
he looks just like grumpy cat

god i could save him if only i could tell him this

>>9035444

I became the maiden. I married the maiden to the dragon. The dragon ate the maiden. The maiden died. The dragon became the maiden.

>>9035475
>I became the maiden
post feminine maiden benis

>>9035509
>not dragon benis
what kind of freak are you?

>>9035421
It all depends on whether you're going to enjoy it or not.

>>9035421
I like the comfyness of it. His pop references are pretty much always out of place, and sound forced as fuck. His sex scenes are also out of place, and most of the time they should not exist, and his magical realism sometimes may be too much. But overall it's pretty cozy and light, and by the end of it i was amused, so i didn't regret it. Not a great novel, but a good one, If you're able to look past the cons, then i think you could enjoy it, as i did

>>9035441
Thanks, I think ill read it. Is this his best book, or should I read a different one?

>>9035195
Congratulations to your decision.

>what else is required besides reading?

Applied ethics. Epictet or Marc Aurel is good for starters.

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>>9035195
Reread if the passage isn't clear the first time around, I commonly take small notes in the margins too since I never plan on selling most of my books, also underlining powerful prose.

Don't start with something above your level either, I'd say start with something like Brave New World, something by Ray Bradbury and then move on to once those texts flow easily Dumas..

For me, rereading is key with non-fiction, non-genre fiction and poetry. Glass of whiskey, a beer or a glass of wine can help set the mood for me to completely immerse myself into reading or writing.

Good luck OP

>>9035226
Interesting. Is it possible that sincerely thinking about what I read is enough?

>>9035234
Thanks man. You know, I've always been fond of reading, despite never being much of a reader. I'd say I'm not a bad reader in that I can understand some complex vocabulary and such. But the measure of a skilled reader is his ability to truly empathize with the author, I think, and I don't have that. Maybe with time.

War & Peace is pretty good

>>9034808
already read is amazing

Band of brothers, voyage au bout de la nuit, thin red line - so I've heard but stopped reading at blowing each other in a tent part, didn't like it much. One of Coetzee stories about war in RSA don't remember the name, maybe it was Foe? Sturm by Junger.

materialised

It sounds ugly, I know, but there really aren't any perfect words for this.

>>9034754
was affirmed (closest to "positive" instead of neutral)
when in doubt use a simile

>>9034865
The idea of risk is conceptual - if the hypothetical event actually takes place, it crosses the boundary into reality and becomes material. I don't think the affirmed is enough, since a supposed risk can be substantiated or affirmed through mere statistics rather than the event actually having to take place

>>9034543
But like nothing even matters.... dude...

your definition of philosophy is retarded

>>9034543
i agree with you